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• Quakers lobby political party on democracy and justice

  22 March 2023

  If elected, Labour must focus on prevention, rehabilitation, and restorative justice to repair the criminal justice system, Quakers say.

• Quakers: Budget does not address crises facing country

  16 March 2023

  The Chancellor's 2023 budget should do more to address the climate crisis, Quakers said.
  

• Quakers call for inquiry into use of hotels for vulnerable asylum-seeking children

  15 March 2023

  Quakers have joined 50 other organisations in writing to the Joint Committee on Human Rights seeking an urgent inquiry into the use of hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

• Quakers join forces with Wildlife Trust to benefit nature and community

  13 March 2023

  Quakers in Norton are working with Tees Valley Wildlife Trust to use their burial ground for nature and local people.

• Quakers address the monarch at Buckingham Palace

  10 March 2023

  Quakers from Britain and Ireland visited Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 9 March, to exercise their historic right to address the King.

• Quaker pamphlet to counteract militarisation of British schools

  9 March 2023

  Quakers have produced a resource to help schools offer a balanced perspective after their research found widespread targeting of schoolchildren by the armed forces and arms companies.

• New migration bill is inhumane, Quakers say

  8 March 2023

  Quakers in Britain have described the government's new migration bill as 'inhumane' because it would subject thousands of vulnerable people to destitution, detention and deportation.

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